{"id":155471,"date":"2025-03-17T21:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T20:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/defection-jandor-came-to-spy-ruin-lagos-pdp-chieftain"},"modified":"2025-04-03T16:28:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T15:28:36","slug":"defection-jandor-came-to-spy-ruin-lagos-pdp-chieftain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/defection-jandor-came-to-spy-ruin-lagos-pdp-chieftain","title":{"rendered":"Defection: Jandor came to spy, ruin Lagos PDP \u2013 Chieftain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Lagos State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, says it will not miss the party\u2019s 2023 governorship candidate,Dr Abdul-Azeez Adediran, better known as Jandor, who defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC.<\/p>\n<p>The State PDP Vice Chairman (Central) Hakeem Olalemi, made this statement while reacting to Adediran\u2019s return to APC on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Olalemi, who noted that the exit of Adediran from PDP was not a shock, said that the former gubernatorial candidate came to spy and ruin the party in the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe (Adediran) is a human being and the Nigerian Constitution allows freedom of associations. He is free to resign from any group or party and join any group he wants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will miss his shenanigans, comedy and cunningness. So, we will not miss anything good about him in the party because he has done a huge havoc to our party in Lagos State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has come to our party to spy and he ruined the party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are assuring the public that we are going to pick up the party from where it is now and take it to its Eldorado come 2027 by the special grace of God,\u201d Olalemi said.<\/p>\n<p>It would be recalled that Adediran, a leader of Lagos4Lagos Movement and former APC governorship aspirant, also defected from APC to PDP in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, declared Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu as the winner of the Lagos governorship election, defeating all contestants, including Adediran.<\/p>\n<p>Sanwo-Olu polled 762,134 votes to defeat his close challenger, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour of the Labour Party, LP, who scored 312,329 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Adediran, the PDP\u2019s flagbearer, came a distant third with 62,449 votes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Lagos State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, says it will not miss the party\u2019s 2023 governorship candidate,Dr Abdul-Azeez Adediran, better known as Jandor, who defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC. The State PDP Vice Chairman (Central) Hakeem Olalemi, made this statement while reacting to Adediran\u2019s return to APC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":155470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,16],"tags":[1620,9627,2535,254],"class_list":["post-155471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-defection","tag-jandor","tag-lagos-pdp","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Defection: Jandor came to spy, ruin Lagos PDP \u2013 Chieftain - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Lagos State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, says it will not miss the party\u2019s 2023 governorship candid ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/defection-jandor-came-to-spy-ruin-lagos-pdp-chieftain\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Defection: Jandor came to spy, ruin Lagos PDP \u2013 Chieftain\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Lagos State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, says it will not miss the party\u2019s 2023 governorship candid ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/defection-jandor-came-to-spy-ruin-lagos-pdp-chieftain\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-03-17T20:45:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-04-03T15:28:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1742235939.845883.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/defection-jandor-came-to-spy-ruin-lagos-pdp-chieftain#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/defection-jandor-came-to-spy-ruin-lagos-pdp-chieftain\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Defection: Jandor came to spy, ruin Lagos PDP \u2013 Chieftain\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-03-17T20:45:15+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-04-03T15:28:36+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/defection-jandor-came-to-spy-ruin-lagos-pdp-chieftain\"},\"wordCount\":294,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/defection-jandor-came-to-spy-ruin-lagos-pdp-chieftain#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1742235939.845883.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"defection\",\"Jandor\",\"Lagos PDP\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/defection-jandor-came-to-spy-ruin-lagos-pdp-chieftain#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/defection-jandor-came-to-spy-ruin-lagos-pdp-chieftain\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/defection-jandor-came-to-spy-ruin-lagos-pdp-chieftain\",\"name\":\"Defection: Jandor came to spy, ruin Lagos PDP \u2013 Chieftain - 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